-- DGP WRITES THAT TADEUSZ KOŚCIŃSKI, WHOM PMM KNOWS FROM HIS BZWBK DAYS, MAY BECOME THE NEXT FINANCE MINISTER:https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1423866,finansowy-wezel-gordyjski-czyli-budzet-na-2020-r.html -- BANAŚ FLEES THE GOVERNMENT - KRZYSZTOF ADAM KOWALCZYK IN RZ: “Secondly, this is already the fourth finance minister during the ‘good change’ era. This is strange, considering that – according to the government – state finances are in excellent condition. If things are so good, why has the minister’s chair from Świętokrzyska street become a hot seat? Could a period of sharp budget tensions await us? Or perhaps the future head of NIK does not want to endorse further PiS election gifts worth tens of billions of zlotys?”. -- A FIFTH FINANCE MINISTER IS A PARADOX - KOWALCZYK CONTINUES: “Poland will soon have its fifth finance minister in less than four years. For a country that, according to the government's assurances, has an excellent budget, this is an exceptional phenomenon”. https://www.rp.pl/Opinie/190729497-KowalczyK-Goracy-stolek-kasjera-panstwa.html -- THE PRIME MINISTER PUBLISHES AN ARTICLE IN FRANFURTER ALLGEMEINE: http://300gospodarka.pl/news/2019/07/29/mateusz-morawiecki-w-faz-polska-zaproponuje-ue-deklaracje-do-wspolnego-zwalczania-oszustw-w-vat/ -- SIGN UP FOR THE EXCLUSIVE 300GOSPODARKA NEWSLETTER AND HAVE NEW TOPICS FOR LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS: https://300gospodarka.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=91b0a236c6725527fee39090c&id=9f4c29caa3 -- THE ZDROJEWSKI COUPLE DECLARE THEIR CANDIDACY FOR THE SENATE, PSL IS PLEASED - GW: “Parliamentary elections 2019. - We will both run for senator seats - announced Barbara and Bogdan Zdrojewski on Sunday evening. This almost certainly means their separation from Civic Platform. - I am counting on the support of my previous voters, the Civic Coalition, and all opposition forces - Zdrojewska tells us. But the facts are that according to the regional PO authorities, the party's candidates for the Senate in the Wrocław districts are to be Prof. Alicja Chybicka, Ewa Wolak, and Aleksander Marek Skorupa”. http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,25037669,wybory-parlamentarne-2019-zdrojewscy-chca-do-senatu.html -- AIR KUCHCIŃSKI - GW'S LEAD STORY: “A backup plane with a crew, backup airports, services on standby. The Marshal of the Sejm’s weekend flights with his family were conducted under the status of an “official mission of HEAD status”. Their costs are difficult to estimate. -- GW ON HOW MUCH KUCHCIŃSKI'S FLIGHTS ACTUALLY COST: “Does PLN 572.40 per person cover the costs of a HEAD flight? This amount was calculated by the Chancellery of the Sejm based on agreements for ticket refunds with PLL LOT. However, a flight on a “special aircraft” under the HEAD procedure generates significantly higher costs. The request for the flight already mentions a “backup MSD aircraft”. This means that during the “operation” (a HEAD flight is considered a military operation), a backup plane with a crew must be on standby. It waits in readiness at the MSD, meaning the place of permanent stationing, which signifies an airport from which it can take off with assistance at any moment if necessary”. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,25035790,afera-air-kuchcinski-ile-naprawde-kosztowaly-loty-rodziny.html -- THERE WERE ABOUT 100 SUCH FLIGHTS, WHICH CHANGES THE PICTURE - NITRAS ON TOK - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2019/07/29/#post-502107 -- WHAT KIND OF STANDARD IS THIS? - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ ON KUCHCIŃSKI:“Therefore, to diffuse the crisis, PiS decided on an extraordinary step of “returning” the costs, and in essence, transferring part of the amount saved by Kuchciński's family on joint flights to charitable purposes. And it is precisely the extraordinary nature of the measures taken – contrary to PiS's narrative of a new standard – that testifies to how deep this crisis was. Besides, what kind of standard is it to donate money to charity after misleading the public and journalists on this matter for many months?”. https://www.rp.pl/Opinie/190729527-Szuldrzynski-Podniebny-problem-PiS-z-Kuchcinskim.html -- 34% BLAME NATIONALISTS FOR THE EVENTS IN BIAŁYSTOK, BUT THE RULING PARTY IS SECOND WITH 28% - RZ POLL: https://www.rp.pl/Polityka/307289965-Sondaz-Kto-jest-winny-wydarzen-w-Bialymstoku.html -- PIS HAS A PROBLEM BECAUSE IT IS IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE MAIN CULPRITS - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ: “Frankly speaking, the opposition has a problem – they started arguing among themselves about LGBT. And the issue won't disappear, especially with the next Equality Parade on August 10th in Płock. Can Jarosław Kaczyński rub his hands with glee? Not entirely. In a "Rzeczpospolita" poll, his PiS is identified as one of the culprits of the Białystok excesses”. https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/newsletter-onetu-andrzej-stankiewicz-lgbt-dzieli-opozycje/trvtmz2 -- KONRAD DULKOWSKI FROM THE CENTRE FOR MONITORING RACIST BEHAVIOUR IN A DGP ARTICLE: “What struck me when I arrived here were the swastikas on the walls. It’s not about someone having painted them, but about nobody trying to wash them off. Near the entrance to Białystok University of Technology, there was a Celtic cross and the inscription ‘white power’. Hundreds of people passed by it every day – says Konrad Dulkowski from the Centre for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behaviour. – When we tried to do something about it, the city guard sent us to the police, the police to the prosecutor’s office, and the prosecutor’s office usually discontinued the proceedings – he adds. https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/603747,bialystok-demonstracja-lgbt-policja-poszukiwani-napastnicy-pis-sld-po.html -- INCITING HATRED AGAINST MINORITIES IS GETTING OUT OF HAND FOR THE AUTHORITIES - MICHAŁ SUTOWSKI TALKS WITH BEATEN EYE JOURNALIST - PRZEMYSŁAW WITKOWSKI: “When I look at our government and its message regarding LGBTQ, it reminds me of the British Tories regarding Brexit – they don’t believe what they say, but they hope it will pay off politically. Apart from a few ideologically motivated exceptions, like Krystyna Pawłowicz, most PiS politicians are cynical players who see that inciting hatred against minorities sells very well in Eastern Europe. It works perfectly in Russia: more and more regions there adopted resolutions against LGBT, which ended with a nationwide law. The problem is that it gets out of control over time – the Tories also incited voters against the European Union, only they overdid it and in the end, the majority voted to leave, which didn't really benefit the conservatives that much. And politicians to their right gained the most”. -- WITKOWSKI ON WHAT COMES NEXT ON THE SCALE OF VIOLENCE - SAYS TO SUTOWSKI: “In my opinion, it is important to halt further stages of public space appropriation by nationalism or homophobia. If we allow inscriptions, let us know that after inscriptions on walls, loud insults towards others will follow, then spitting on them, then pushing, beating, and finally murder. The scale of violence varies. Each of us can assess how to react properly. If all those who are upset today by the events in Białystok or the attack on me, when seeing similar inscriptions with a Celtic cross or equating LGBT with pedophilia, had taken a photo of them, reported them to the appropriate institution, or painted over such an inscription on their building – that would have changed something. I am by no means urging you to wrestle with hooligans, but reporting an offensive inscription is something that everyone can do safely. It would be an ideal situation if local authorities reacted to such inscriptions and reports. If homophobic inscriptions were painted over immediately, then situations like the one I experienced would not have to happen:”. https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/sutowski-rozmawia-witkowski/ -- EWA SIEDLECKA ON HOW THE AUTHORITIES AND THE CHURCH ARE MAKING GAYS AND LESBIANS INTO A PHYSICAL THREAT - WRITES IN OKO: “Political authorities and the Church have turned non-heterosexual individuals into a threat. And not just a worldview threat. Representatives of secular and church authorities paint a picture of a physical threat to the nation, families, and children. In turn, LGBT individuals are terrified by the widespread incitement and are actually threatened – as was evident, for example, at the Białystok march. Absurdities and lies told about the so-called “LGBT ideology” and non-heterosexual individuals themselves benefit from freedom of speech. Attempts to correct them do not reach the aggressors and the intimidated, because they live in their “information bubble” of state television and radio, and their part of the internet”. -- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF AGGRESSION - SIEDLECKA CONTINUES: “I hope I am a false prophet, but I fear this is just the beginning. Aggression provokes aggression, hatred breeds hatred. These are feelings that have no sexual orientation. The political and church authorities are to blame for these phenomena. They incite, sow hatred, without taking responsibility for the consequences. And then, using the propaganda apparatus, which includes government media and media sympathetic to the government, as well as church pulpits and official documents of the episcopate, they blame the “LGBT activists” for everything. And they will be able – unfortunately – to point to specific examples”. https://oko.press/siedlecka-ostrzega-rozkreca-sie-spirala-przemocy/ -- DISCUSSION OF WORLDVIEW ISSUES IS A DREAM OF PIS - BARTOSZ ARŁUKOWICZ ON GAZETA.PL:“ Jarosław Kaczyński dreams of Poles discussing worldview issues. He also loves to scare them with immigrants, primordial creatures, or even the Euro. Unfortunately, I must disappoint him: we will talk to Poles about prices in shops, queues for doctors, lack of medicines in pharmacies, and what Poland will look like after PiS”. -- ARŁUKOWICZ ON THE SCENARIOS FROM NOWOGRODZKA: “We were, are, and always will be against violence. We have proven this many times. However, one must also remember that Jarosław Kaczyński’s political dream is for the election results in Poland to be decided by issues like LGBT. Meanwhile, Poland has many problems to solve, and these are what should be addressed today. Therefore, we should avoid falling into the scenarios that the PiS chairman is creating for the opposition from Nowogrodzka”. http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,25030532,arlukowicz-dla-gazeta-pl-zawsze-bylem-i-bede-czlowiekiem-o.html -- 33 QUOTES FROM HOMOPHOBIC STATEMENTS BY RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS - SELECTED BY PIOTR PACEWICZ AND RAFAŁ SZYMCZUK IN OKO: https://oko.press/homofobia-pis-jak-rozbudzali-nienawisc-do-lgbt-prezydent-prezes-ministrowie-poslowie-33-cytaty/ -- PAWEŁ ROŻYŃSKI IN RZ ON HOW RISING PRICES ARE INCREASING EXTREME POVERTY DESPITE THE 500+ PROGRAM: “The poorest are suffering from the jump in prices of basic goods. Surprising conclusions emerge from the latest GUS report on economic poverty. Despite the 500+ program, the extent of extreme poverty (from about 4% of people in 2017 to about 5%) and relative poverty (from about 13% to 14%) increased last year. Poverty has significantly increased among households dependent mainly on social benefits and among households with children. Expensive food will significantly worsen their situation”. https://www.rp.pl/Opinie/307289956-Papier-toaletowy-pozera-500.html -- IS THE REJECTION OF SZCZERSKI TO BE USED IN ANTI-EU PROPAGANDA? - WITOLD GADOMSKI in GW: “Why is PiS proposing a candidate who is known from the outset not to be accepted? Is it to use it in anti-EU propaganda? (...) Here we come to Jarosław Kaczyński's brilliant tactic. It is hard to believe that the PiS chairman is unaware of the possible reaction of MEPs to Szczerski's candidacy. If it is rejected, PiS will organize a campaign around this issue, presenting today’s Europe as hostile to Polish Catholics. This will be the first shot in the propaganda war against the Union, the aim of which will be to increase anti-EU sentiment and prepare society for polexit”. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,25032199,szczerski-tajna-bron-prezesa-polski-kandydat-do-komisji-europejskiej.html -- PYRAMIDS OF INCOMPETENCE OF AMCZYK - ANDRZEJ KUBLIK IN GW: “If the Minister of Infrastructure, Andrzej Adamczyk, took his own words seriously, he should resign after the latest series of terminated road contracts. (...) Perhaps Sławomir Nowak, as Minister of Transport, made some mistakes. But he was certainly not responsible for the scandals during the construction of the A1 by Alpine Bau. However, if Andrzej Adamczyk blames his predecessor from PO for this, then he himself should also step down now”. http://wyborcza.pl/7,155290,25023400,piramidy-niekompetencji-ministra-adamczyka.html -- WEDDING OF BEATA SZYDŁO'S YOUNGER SON, Adamczyk and Karczewski attended the ceremony: https://gazetakrakowska.pl/syn-beaty-szydlo-stanal-na-slubnym-kobiercu-slub-odbyl-sie-w-alwerni/ar/c1-14308037?fbclid=IwAR2YuLnnp4e_NKgvbywXBVZdWdenGe3VCEbaby1IeofdNq4eklZXa4_gBHg&utm_campaign=artykul&utm_medium=gazeta-krakowska&utm_source=facebook.com -- BIRTHDAYS: Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, Sebastian Kaleta, Rafał Jurkowlaniec, Michał Olszański.